While faking large volume groups a minor flaw in the loop driver showed up, which fails creating the maximum of 256 devices. The followong patch against 2.4.17 fixes that here. diff -u linux-2.4.17.orig/drivers/block/loop.c linux-2.4.17/drivers/block/loop.c --- linux-2.4.17.orig/drivers/block/loop.c Fri Dec 21 18:41:53 2001 +++ linux-2.4.17/drivers/block/loop.c Mon Feb 18 12:23:32 2002 @@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ * Al Viro too. * Jens Axboe , Nov 2000 * + * Support up to 256 loop devices + * Heinz Mauelshagen , Feb 2002 + * * Still To Fix: * - Advisory locking is ignored here. * - Should use an own CAP_* category instead of CAP_SYS_ADMIN @@ -965,7 +968,7 @@ * And now the modules code and kernel interface. */ MODULE_PARM(max_loop, "i"); -MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_loop, "Maximum number of loop devices (1-255)"); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_loop, "Maximum number of loop devices (1-256)"); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); int loop_register_transfer(struct loop_func_table *funcs) @@ -1001,9 +1004,9 @@ { int i; - if ((max_loop < 1) || (max_loop > 255)) { + if ((max_loop < 1) || (max_loop > 256)) { printk(KERN_WARNING "loop: invalid max_loop (must be between" - " 1 and 255), using default (8)\n"); + " 1 and 256), using default (8)\n"); max_loop = 8; } -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/